About the Authors

Yoshimi Ide

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshimi Ide, Michihiko Waki

Affiliations Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Michihiko Waki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshimi Ide, Michihiko Waki

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takahiro Hayasaka

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Tomohisa Nishio

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Yoshifumi Morita

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hiroki Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Takeshi Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Kei Koizumi

Affiliation Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Ryoichi Matsunuma

Affiliation Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Yuko Hosokawa

Affiliation Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Hiroyuki Ogura

Affiliation Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Norihiko Shiiya

Affiliation Department of Surgery I, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Mitsutoshi Setou

setou@hama-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI MW TN YM MS NS. Performed the experiments: YI MW TH TN YM HT TS. Analyzed the data: YI MW TH TN YM MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI MW TH TN YM HT TS KK RM YH HO MS NS. Wrote the paper: YI MW TH KK MS.